Posts by Anne Collier
- Microsoft Proposes 'Digital Playgrounds'
By Anne Collier - Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:39am PDTMicrosoft has created a buzzword to go with its age-verification plan: "digital playgrounds," sites where kids use digital ID cards to hang out in adult-free places online.... Read More»
- Stealthy Surfing Easier in Internet Explorer 8
- By Anne Colllier - Fri Sep 5, 2008 6:14pm PDT
If you rely on browser history to keep an eye on your kids' Web surfing habits, you should know that stealth browsing is getting easier --at least for families relying on Windows PCs.... Read More»
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- Virtual Worlds Crowd Cyberspace
- By Anne Collier - Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:19pm PDT
There are more than 150 virtual worlds -- either open now or in development -- targeting people 18 and under,... Read More»
- Coming to a Phone Near You: Tinker Bell
- By Anne Collier - Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:42pm PDT
For socializers too young to drive, mobile phones are lifelines, and Disney has fresh plans to capitalize on that fact.... Read More»
- Reading, Writing and... Social Networking?
- By Anne Collier - Fri Aug 1, 2008 4:13pm PDT
We don't have to allow the news media's negative, narrowly defined presentation of social networking to influence how we picture social networking at school.... Read More»
- Texting for Parental Avoidance?
- By Anne Collier - Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:45pm PDT
According to an executive in Disney's U.S. mobile phone division, kids will let parents' calls go to voicemail, then text Mom or Dad about what's up.... Read More»
- Real World Citizens for the Virtual World
- By Anne Collier - Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:00pm PDT
If you can just help your kids apply what they're learning about how to treat people respectfully and function in community to the online part of their lives, you're accomplishing a lot.... Read More»
- Data Breaches and Kids' Privacy
- By Anne Collier - Mon Jul 7, 2008 2:42pm PDT
If age verification is required of websites, kids' personal information would have to be stored in a database somewhere. And that information could be vulnerable.... Read More»
- What Makes a Good Digital Citizen?
- By Anne Collier - Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:27pm PDT
If children begin to see online environments as communities they're helping to shape so that they have a stake in them, they'll simply act more accountably.... Read More»
- An Educational Social Network?
- By Anne Collier - Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:41pm PDT
Not long ago Dale Ferrario was working at Sun Microsystems and wanting to figure out how to help young people learn about technology in a way that they found relevant. He decided to combine social networking with learning about technology in a safe online... Read More»
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